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Our maths curriculum helps pupils build understanding and fluency – developing reasoning, problem-solving and confidence through carefully structured lessons and clear models.
  • National curriculum aligned
  • Sequenced, flexible, adaptable
  • Rooted in mastery approaches
  • Informed by NCETM guidance

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Year 4 units

  1. 1

    Review of column addition and subtraction

    15 lessons
  2. 2

    Secure place value to 1000: apply to addition and subtraction: multiples of 100

    5 lessons
  3. 3

    Calculation and conversion of measures

    5 lessons
  4. 4

    Comparing, ordering and rounding 4-digit numbers

    5 lessons
  5. 5

    Column addition and subtraction with 4-digit numbers

    5 lessons
  6. 6

    Perimeter

    10 lessons
  7. 7

    Represent counting in threes and sixes as the 3 and 6 times tables

    5 lessons
  8. 8

    Relationship between the 3 and 6 times tables and tests of divisibility

    5 lessons
  9. 9

    Represent counting in nines as the 9 times table

    5 lessons
  10. 10

    Relationship between the 3 and 9 times tables

    5 lessons
  11. 11

    7 times table: odd and even patterns, square numbers and tests of divisibility

    10 lessons
  12. 12

    Understand and represent multiplicative structures

    5 lessons
  13. 13

    Apply the distributive law to multiplication

    5 lessons
  14. 14

    Understand what happens when a number is multiplied or divided by 10 and 100

    15 lessons
  15. 15

    Coordinates

    10 lessons
  16. 16

    Review of fractions

    5 lessons
  17. 17

    Composition of fractions greater than one

    5 lessons
  18. 18

    Compare and order mixed numbers and position on a number line

    5 lessons
  19. 19

    Addition and subtraction of fractions and mixed numbers (within a whole)

    5 lessons
  20. 20

    Convert improper fractions to mixed numbers and vice versa

    5 lessons
  21. 21

    Efficient strategies for adding and subtracting mixed numbers (crossing a whole)

    5 lessons
  22. 22

    Properties of 2D and 3D shapes and symmetry

    10 lessons
  23. 23

    Money: apply efficient strategies when calculating with money

    10 lessons
  24. 24

    Time: Convert between 12 and 24 hour clocks: analogue and digital

    5 lessons
  25. 25

    Division with remainders

    10 lessons

Year 5 units

  1. 1

    Understand tenths as part of a whole, represent and calculate mentally

    5 lessons
  2. 2

    Compose and calculate with decimals including column addition and subtraction

    5 lessons
  3. 3

    Understand hundredths as parts of a whole and represent

    5 lessons
  4. 4

    Use knowledge of decimals to solve problems in different contexts: length

    10 lessons
  5. 5

    Negative numbers

    10 lessons
  6. 6

    Multiplication by partitioning leading to short multiplication (2 by 1-digit)

    10 lessons
  7. 7

    Multiplication by partitioning leading to short multiplication (3 by 1-digit)

    5 lessons
  8. 8

    Division by partitioning leading to short division (2 and 3-digits by 1-digit)

    15 lessons
  9. 9

    Understand the concept of area

    5 lessons
  10. 10

    Link area of rectangles to multiplication

    10 lessons
  11. 11

    Compare and describe measurements using knowledge of multiplication and division

    10 lessons
  12. 12

    Calculating with decimal fractions

    15 lessons
  13. 13

    Understand the concept of volume

    5 lessons
  14. 14

    Multiply 3 or more numbers (commutative and associative laws)

    5 lessons
  15. 15

    Understand and use the concept of factorisation (square and prime numbers)

    5 lessons
  16. 16

    Use common factors and multiples to solve calculations efficiently

    5 lessons
  17. 17

    Multiply a proper fraction by a whole number

    5 lessons
  18. 18

    Multiply improper fractions and mixed numbers by a whole number

    5 lessons
  19. 19

    Find unit and non-unit fractions of whole numbers exploring parts and wholes

    10 lessons
  20. 20

    Comparing fractions using equivalence and decimals

    15 lessons
  21. 21

    Converting units

    10 lessons
  22. 22

    Angles: compare, name, estimate and measure angles

    15 lessons

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